10:45-11:45 Judah Galinsky (Bar-Ilan University/Center for the Study of
Religion) "Charity and the Jewish Pious Foundation (Hekdesh) in Christian
Spain: A Comparative Perspective"
11:45-12:45 Elliott Horowitz (Bar-Ilan University) "Marriage and
Money: The Dowering of Jewish Brides in Medieval and Early Modern Europe"

2:00-3:00 Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway College) "Poverty and
Charity in the Earlier Middle Ages: The Middle East and Western Europe
Compared"
3:00-3:15
Coffee Break
3:15-4:15
Brian Pullan (University of Manchester) "Catholics, Protestants and
the Poor in Early Modern Europe"

Academic conference: "Orientalism and Education - the Sephardim/
Mizrachim in Israel and the Diaspora".

Announcing an international conference on the theme dealing with the history
of education on Sephardim / Mizrachim at Ben Gurion University May 5-7,
2002 organized by the Education Department at Ben Gurion University and
the Sephardic email publication, "Sefard, the Sephardic Newsletter."
More than 50 unusual presentations about the marginalization of the Sephardim
in Education and Culture in Israel and in the Diaspora, past and present.
Unusual topics include 300 years of Bucharan Jewish Education; the role
of Jewish education in Central Asia; the contribution of Turkish Jewry
to Zionism; Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust; how the Western perception
of Orientalism influenced the manner in which Ashkenazi Jews perceived
the Eastern Jews and the faint general understanding of the rich culture
and history of Jews from Spain and Muslim lands.

[Note from Editor/Moderator Aviva Ben-Ur: For those of you who do not
read Spanish, I am pleased to paraphrase in English Prof. Salvador Santa
Puche's
news of the founding of a new Center for Sephardic Studies at the University
of Murcia, slated for this July. The center will open its doors in September,
when it will be officially inaugurated. The course, "Introduction
to Sephardic Culture" has been approved and will debut in October
and November. The project, "Sefarad and the Shoah" will also
be launched, featuring an archive of testimonies from Sephardic Holocaust
survivors. This archive will be open to researchers and the general public
for exhibits, conferences, and classes at colleges and high schools. While
much of the program for next semester remains in formation, a huge first
step has been taken! Prof. Santa Puche's original message is below.]